A Difference Between Name Hits and Link Hits

GlumChum

Born

Posts: 2

Loc: NYC

3+ Months Ago

When I google my site name, I get some 25,000 hits. However, when I google link: with my site address, I only get 160 hits. Why is that? Does it effect my page rank, being that google is link-oriented? If so, what can I do?

meman

Web Master

Posts: 3432

Loc: London Town , Apples and pears and all that crap

3+ Months Ago

Google doesn't show all backlinks in a link: search.

GlumChum

Born

Posts: 2

Loc: NYC

3+ Months Ago

meman wrote:

Google doesn't show all backlinks in a link: search.

So what does that mean? That this is a normal difference - nothing to be worried about?

meman

Web Master

Posts: 3432

Loc: London Town , Apples and pears and all that crap

3+ Months Ago

yeah it's normal, Nothing to worry about.

Millsons Leather

Student

Posts: 95

Loc: Uganda

3+ Months Ago

You can check the very much difference between google and yahoo displaying links just compare the results together.

one of my site shows more than 250 backlinks in yahoo and 3 to 4 backlinks in google.
and i too don't know whats the reason behind it.